Portrait of Alessandro Manzoni

Portrait of Alessandro Manzoni is an 1841 oil-on-canvas portrait of Alessandro Manzoni by the Italian painter Francesco Hayez, now in the Pinacoteca di Brera.

[1][2] It was commissioned in 1840 by Manzoni's second wife countess Teresa Borri Stampa and his son Stefano.

After fifteen sittings the painter completed the work on 26 June 1841.

[3] Eight years later Teresa commissioned a portrait of herself by the same artist.

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